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#138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993)
Past, Present, Future

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Editorial

W. H. New

• Facing the Future (p. 3)
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Articles

Ruth Panofsky

• The Publication of Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker, 1st Series (p. 5 - 20)
• Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Authorship
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Jean O'Grady

• The Critic in the Attic: Religious Doubt, Mind, and Heart in the Fiction of Robert E. Knowles (p. 23 - 32)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion
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William C. James

• The Ambiguities of Love in Morley Callaghan's Such is My Beloved (p. 35 - 51)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel, Religion
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Dominique Perron

• Les discours sociaux dans Les Nuits de l'Underground de Marie-Claire Blais (p. 53 - 70)
• Subjects: Francophone, Literary Criticism
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Sandra Tomc

• "The Missionary Position": Feminism and Nationalism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (p. 73 - 87)
• Subjects: Nationalism, Novel, Women's Literature, Women's Studies
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Alan Weiss

• Private and Public in Timothy Findley's The Wars (p. 91 - 102)
• Subjects: War , World War I
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Poems

William Robertson

• Another Lesson in Economics (p. 4)

David Zieroth

• Time Over Earth (p. 21 - 22)

Teruko Anderson-Jones

• Bringing in the Horses (p. 33)

David Reiter

• Mutton birds* (p. 34)

Cathy Ford

• Also, how I lost her... (p. 52)

Crystal Hurdle

• A Vision (p. 71 - 72)

K. V. Skene

• Weak Anthropic Principle (p. 88)

K. V. Skene

• Strong Anthropic Principle (p. 88)

K. V. Skene

• Participatory Anthropic Principles (p. 89)

K. V. Skene

• Final Anthropic Principle (p. 89 - 90)

K. V. Skene

• Anthropic Principle Revisited (p. 90)

Book Reviews

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Essaying (p. 103 - 105)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) reviewed:

1. inkorrect thots by bill bissett
2. Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book Machine; The Collected Research Reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982 by Steve McCaffrey and bp Nichol

Subjects: Poetry, Twenty-First Century

A Poet's Bones (p. 105 - 106)

by Neil K Besner

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Good Bones by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Short Fiction

La critique (p. 106 - 108)

by Neil B. Bishop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hubert Aquin entre référence et métaphore by Anthony Wall
2. Le Roman québécois by Réjean Beaudoin

Subjects: Francophone, Literary Theory

Transgressions (p. 108 - 110)

by Dennis Denisoff

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Beyond Borders: An Anthology of New Writing from Manitoba, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, and the Dakotas by Dave Williamson and Mark Vinz
2. No Forwarding Address by Elisabeth Bowers

Subjects: Anthologies, Novel

Habitable Interiors (p. 110 - 112)

by Susan Rudy Dorscht

Book(s) reviewed:

1. South Hill Girls by Barbara Sapergia
2. The Dragonfly Fling by Jean McKay

Subjects: Prairie Writing, Short Fiction

Journeying (p. 112 - 114)

by Jo-Anne Elder

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Biggest Modern Woman of the World by Susan Swan
2. The Child Hero in the Canadian Novel by Theresia Quigley

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Childhood

Community (p. 114 - 116)

by Jane Ennenberg

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aqua by Anne Marriott
2. Tell Tale Signs by Janice Williamson
3. Wiles of Girlhood by Joanne Arnott

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Poetry

Great Distances (p. 116 - 118)

by Susan Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Interview by Maxine Hong Kingston

Subjects: Asian American, Immigrant, Indian/South Asian

Beauty and Sadness (p. 118 - 120)

by Jill Franks

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Best Canadian Stories 1992 by David Helwig and Maggie Helwig
2. Coming Attractions by Maggie Helwig and Douglas Glover

Subjects: Anthologies, Women's Literature

Significant (p. 120 - 121)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 by Ken S. Coates
2. Colonial Leviathons: State Formation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Canada by Allan Greer and Ian Radforth

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Colonialism, Native Studies

Political Commitment (p. 121 - 122)

by Gabriele Helms

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law & Literature by Richard Weisberg
2. Writing History as a Prophet. Postmodenist Innovations of the Historical Novel by Elizabeth Wesseling

Subjects: Historical Fiction, Literary Theory

Spiritual Vitality (p. 123 - 124)

by Henry Hubert

Book(s) reviewed:

1. An Evangelical Mind: Nathanael Burwash and the Methodist Tradition in Canada, 1839-1918 by Marguerite Van Die
2. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by Jon Butler
3. The Evangelical Century: College and Creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression by Michael Gauvreau

Subjects: History, Religion

Lie of the Land (p. 124 - 126)

by Marilyn Iwama

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Empress Has No Closure by Adeena Karasick
2. The Work of Our Hands by Sharon H. Nelson
3. White Lies for Mother by Liza Potvin

Subjects: Childhood, Gender, Poetry

Assertions (p. 126 - 128)

by Michèle Kaltemback

Book(s) reviewed:

1. How to Saw Wood with an Angel by Gertrude Story
2. The Katzenbody Problem by Tsigane Baernstein

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Women's Studies

In the Midst (p. 128 - 129)

by Jon Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe by Peter Quartermain
2. In the Midst: Wrtitings 1962-1992 by Warren Tallman

Subjects: Correspondence, Poetry

Festshriven (p. 130 - 131)

by Jon Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. "You Devise. We Devise." A Festschrift for Phyllis Webb by
2. Phyllis Webb and Her Works by John F. Hulcoop

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Discoveries & Mysteries (p. 131 - 133)

by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Arguments With the World: Essays by Joanne Page
2. Keep That Candle Burning Bright and Other Poems by Bronwen Wallace

Subjects: Literary Theory, Poetry

Outside Within (p. 133 - 135)

by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Anatomy of Gender: Women's Struggle for the Body by Dawn Currie and Valerie Raoul
2. Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggle by Himani Bannerji

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Feminism, Women's Studies

Visual Economy (p. 135 - 136)

by Alan Lawson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Last of the Golden Girls by Susan Swan

Subjects: Feminism, Literary Criticism

Mother-Tongue (p. 137 - 138)

by Valerie Legge

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Sister Woman by J. G. Sime

Subjects: Settler Writing, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Imaginary Indian (p. 138 - 141)

by Hartmut Lutz

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Afterlife of George Cartwright: A Novel by John Steffler
2. The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Literature by Daniel Francis and Iain Higgins

Subjects: Ethnic History, First Nations

Abusing Lacan (p. 141 - 142)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction by Elizabeth Grosz
2. Using Lacan, Reading Fiction by James M. Mellard

Subjects: Literary Theory, Twentieth Century

Confessions (p. 143 - 144)

by Michael Mason

Book(s) reviewed:

1. How Do You Spell Beautiful? And Other Stories by Patrick Lane
2. Man and His World by Clark Blaise
3. The Priest's Boy by Clive Doucet

Subjects: Ethnic History, Memory & Identity

Elle sera poète (p. 145)

by Ann Pearson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Elle sera poète, elle aussi! Les femmes et la création artistique by Susan Fisher and Liliane Blanc

Subjects: History, Women's Studies

Cultural Differences (p. 146 - 147)

by Joseph Pivato

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Black Blood by F. G. Paci
2. Poetry. Selected and Translated by Antonino Mazza by Pierre Rajotte and Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subjects: Immigrant, Italo-Canadian

Munro Tapes (p. 147 - 148)

by Beverly Rasporich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alice Munro Reading "The Progress of Love" by The American Audio Prose Library
2. Interview with Alice Munro by The American Audio Prose Library

Subjects: Multimedia, Short Fiction

A Double Life (p. 148 - 149)

by Beverly Rasporich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alice Munro: A Double Life by Catherine Sheldrick Ross and Shane Rhodes
2. Mothers and Other Clowns: The Stories of Alice Munro by Magdalene Redekop

Subjects: Biography, Feminism, Literary Criticism

Poet & Polis (p. 150 - 151)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dance with Desire: Selected Love Poems by Irving Layton and Kevin McNeilly
2. Taking Power by David Lewis Stein

Subjects: Novel, Poetry, Sexuality, Urban Novel

Two Germanys (p. 151 - 153)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Night at the Opera by Ray Smith
2. The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology by J. P. Stern

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Eastern European, Nationalism

Lucy & John (p. 153 - 155)

by Catherine Sheldrick Ross

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Borders of Nightmare: The Fiction of John Richardson by Michael Hurley
2. The Fragrance of Sweet-grass: L. M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Childhood

Grace & Gall (p. 155 - 156)

by William Scheick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
2. The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater by Trevor Ferguson

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Life Writing

Woman—Identified (p. 156 - 158)

by Sue Schenk

Book(s) reviewed:

1. InVersions: Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians by Betsy Warland
2. Tide Lines: Stories of Change by Lesbians by Lee Felming

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gay/Lesbian

Claims of Loneliness (p. 158 - 160)

by Jim Snyder

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Journey Prize Anthology by
2. Things As They Are? by

Subjects: Anthologies, Childhood

Canon Building (p. 160 - 162)

by Susan Spearey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canadian Canons: Essays in Literary Value by Robert Lecker
2. Canadian Storytellers, Volume I: New Directions from Old by J. R. (Tim) Struthers

Subjects: Anthologies, Canadian Studies

Black on White (p. 162 - 164)

by K. P. Stich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Wandering City by Robert Kendall
2. Acts of Light by Mark Frutkin
3. Alphabet of Desire by Ken Norris

Subjects: Authorship, Poetry

Novel Guides (p. 164 - 166)

by Nora Foster Stovel

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Introducing Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman by W. J. Keith
2. Introducting Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel by George Woodcock

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Found Again (p. 166 - 167)

by Jane Tilley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec by Nicole Brossard and Lisette Girouard
2. Les Textes poétiques du Canada français: 1606-1867. Volume 5: 1850-1855 by Jeanne d'Arc Lortie and Yolande Grisé

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry, Quebec

Early Modern (p. 167 - 169)

by Brian Trehearne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Complete Poems by A. M. Klein

Subjects: Literary Theory, Poetry

Cultures in Context (p. 169 - 170)

by Alexandra Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Coyote Winter by Jacquelinne White
2. Mei Ming and the Dragon's Daughter by Lydia Bailey
3. Wisakyjak and the New World by Adam Ballantyne

Subjects: Asian Canadian, First Nations, Nature Writing

Dialogic Framework (p. 171 - 172)

by Marion Wynne-Davies

Book(s) reviewed:

1. My Father Took a Cake to France by Denise Adèle Heaps and Cynthia Flood
2. The Tightrope Walker. Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson by Joan Coldwell

Subjects: Autobiography, Short Fiction, Women's Studies

Raw vs Clever (p. 172 - 174)

by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Exit Barney McGee by Claire Mackay
2. Lady Daisy by Dick King-Smith
3. Margin of Error by Leslie Choyce
4. The Magpie Summer by Elana Wolff and Judith Wright
5. Wafer Thin by Elin Elgaard

Subjects: Childhood, Children's Literature, Memory & Identity

Tryptych (p. 174 - 175)

by Mick Burrs

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Narratives and Continuations by Norm Sibum
2. New Moon, Old Mattress by Patricia Keeney
3. Splinters by Doug Turner

Subjects: Home & Family, Poetry

Re-membering Lesbian Desire (p. 175 - 177)

by Peter Dickinson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dykewords: An Anthology of Lesbian Writing by The Lesbian Writing and Publishing Collective
2. Radical Perversions: Two Dyke Plays by Audrey Butler

Subjects: Anthologies, Drama, Gay/Lesbian

Les légèretés lyriques (p. 177 - 179)

by Dominique Perron

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Generation Lyrique by François Ricard
2. Parler Loin, 1&2 by Phillippe Haeck

Subjects: History, Quebec

Timespaces (p. 179 - 181)

by Alexander Forbes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Labyrinths: poems from five cities by Michael Bullock
2. One Fish from the Rooftop by John Mikhail Asfour
3. The "Patricia" Album and Other Poems by Eric Trethewey and Colleen Thibaudeau

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Poetry

Maps (p. 181 - 183)

by Alexander Forbes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Echoes in Silence by W. J. Keith and Eva-Marie Kröller
2. Port Ebony by Dan Jalowica
3. The Rage of Space Poems by Philip Stratford

Subjects: Cultural Geography, Memory & Identity, Poetry

Chiarascuro (p. 183 - 184)

by Alexander Forbes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gravity and Light by Anne M. Kelly, Margaret Blackwood, and Kerry Slavens
2. Month's Mind by John V. Hicks

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Poetry

Past Perfect / Past Imperfect (p. 184 - 186)

by Alexander Forbes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mortal Remains by Patrick Lane
2. The Hour's Acropolis by John Pass and Norman Ravvin

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Poetry

Opinions & Notes

Henry C. Phelps

• Nick's Picture in A Jest of God (p. 186 - 188)